Love and Marriage

Written for the 1955 NBC television production of Our Town, “Love and Marriage” won Cahn the first Emmy Award ever given for an individual song. Sinatra’s recording reached #3 on the Billboard charts and became one of his most recognizable performances.

The song enjoyed a remarkable second life when it was adopted as the theme for the television series Married… with Children (1987–1997), introducing it to an entirely new generation — and giving Cahn’s wry observation about matrimony a deliciously ironic new context.